fresh install ---blooming DVD drive not recognized AGAIN

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2012 03:24 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Append: This MB is a MSI P6n SLI Platinum with a dual-core Intel CPU.
>>> It's
>>> been weird setting this one up. It has issues, like the multichannel
>>> sound
>>> output's humming like a nuclear reactor. It refuses to recognize the EDID
>>> from one of two identical monitors. Yeah, fun...
>>>
>>> Just for ducks I figured I'd try using hdparm
>>>
>>> ric at ima:~$ sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/sr0
>>>
>>> /dev/sr0:
>>>  setting using_dma to 1 (on)
>>>  HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>>  HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>>> ric at ima:~$
>>
>>
>> My system shows the same fail messages. Before going low level, my
>> guess is that since data dvds mount OK, it is some kind of DVD
>> codec/playback issue.
>>
>> What video player are you using for DVD playback?
>
>
>
> You name 'em, I've installed and tried them all. Xine, VLC, MoviePlayer,
> Totem-xine. The restricted extras all installed. libdvdcss2 installed more
> than once. I figure it has to be that my hardware isn't up to playing a DVD
> without DMA access enabled. Still googling... and what sucks is that I've
> been here before and it's always something weird and minuscule, like some
> init/config file off of the /etc directory! :) Ric

Have you read this?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs

Give a try to all the steps it mentions.


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Ioannis Vranos

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